Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>: > On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 3:34:41 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Pointer arithmetics is not an essential part of C. One could argue that >> it was a mistake to include it in the language. > > This is subjective of course… but still I wonder where you are coming from… > > You of course know that writing Unix was the genesis and raison d'être > for C right? > > And what is an OS but a thin layer of abstraction on top of bare ISP? > ie is not a Linux-OS just an x86 hw + some new ‘instructions’ called > system-calls?
BASIC doesn't have any pointers at all, but it has PEEK and POKE. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
